1 hour ago, markpitts said:

Washington is now back with the U21s with no clear development plan. That is a €20m signing.

Does this lad actually exist?

If I was this kid I would he getting out of here now. He didn’t want to leave his loan and now we don’t seem to have a plan for him

17 minutes ago, El regreso said:

If I was this kid I would he getting out of here now. He didn’t want to leave his loan and now we don’t seem to have a plan for him

I'm clearly getting old because I felt sorry for him when he was saying goodbye the other day. I see no good reason to halt his loan like that. All it's done is hurt our relationship with Anselmino and Dortmund (even if Dortmund were overdramatic about it)

They tried to force him to go to Strasbourg to recall Sarr, he told them no

Going to Strasbourg per Romano

10 hours ago, Scott Harris said:

I'm clearly getting old because I felt sorry for him when he was saying goodbye the other day. I see no good reason to halt his loan like that. All it's done is hurt our relationship with Anselmino and Dortmund (even if Dortmund were overdramatic about it)

Agreed. On the flip side, at least Dortmund won’t be able to fleece these clueless sporting directors anymore. Gittens + Bundesliga tax + even if they had someone genuine, our lot wouldn’t have identified them correctly anyway.

Haha BlueCo PR saying they don’t want to loan back to Dortmund after they said they wanted to buy him. Chelsea view Anselmino as a future first team player.

All at the same time trying to buy Jacquet and recall Sarr 😂

Edited February 1Feb 1 by Sconnie Blue

14 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Haha BlueCo PR saying they don’t want to loan back to Dortmund after they said they wanted to buy him. Chelsea view Anselmino as a future first team player.

All at the same time trying to buy Jacquet and recall Sarr 😂

Strasbourg are close to agree deal to sign Aaron Anselmino on loan. Despite a proposal from Premier League, Strasbourg remain favorites to get Anselmino deal done soon.

Very strange club. Why would the club pass on an opportunity to loan him to a PL club, and send him to a 2nd rate Ligue 1?

Aaron Anselmino to Strasbourg, here we go! Deal in place over loan until the end of the season.

Don’t understand how the club values a player playing for a Top 2 Bundesliga team and getting consistent CL games lower than a Ligue 1 CB. One was wanted permanently by Dortmund, the other was linked to West Ham.

2 minutes ago, markpitts said:

Aaron Anselmino to Strasbourg, here we go! Deal in place over loan until the end of the season.

Don’t understand how the club values a player playing for a Top 2 Bundesliga team and getting consistent CL games lower than a Ligue 1 CB. One was wanted permanently by Dortmund, the other was linked to West Ham.

So I assume Chukwuemeka was better than A. Santos? One wanted by a top 2 Bundesliga team, the others only suitor was Forest on loan and our sister club.

What an absolute brain dead move

Feel sorry for him

We don't know what we are doing, hopefully the SDs do, but I doubt it .😂

Glad we told Dortmund to stick it after they tried tapping up one of our players again, hopefully we don’t do business with them again

So it seems Dortmund have been trying to induce Anselmino to put in a transfer request, after we loaned him to them. they can shove any complaints if thats true.

2 hours ago, dkw said:

So it seems Dortmund have been trying to induce Anselmino to put in a transfer request, after we loaned him to them. they can shove any complaints if thats true.

As I said when it came to the rumours re Meresca leaving and how a chap who we see at away games gave the heads up before he departed as to the reasons for the falling out.

I saw the same chap at the Palace away game and whilst I am sceptical he told me that there had been a major falling out with Dortmund and yes part of it was re tapping up but it went wider than that although he wasn’t able to put any meat on the bone.

As for Sarr other than the fact his development has been rapid and he is said to be a lump of a lad and a full blown Senaglise international and part of their AFCON team.

1 minute ago, terraloon said:

As I said when it came to the rumours re Meresca leaving and how a chap who we see at away games gave the heads up before he departed as to the reasons for the falling out.

I saw the same chap at the Palace away game and whilst I am sceptical he told me that there had been a major falling out with Dortmund and yes part of it was re tapping up but it went wider than that although he wasn’t able to put any meat on the bone.

As for Sarr other than the fact his development has been rapid and he is said to be a lump of a lad and a full blown Senaglise international and part of their AFCON team.

Do you have twitter? If not i'd suggest getting an account and cutting out the middle man.

6 minutes ago, GarnachoCheese said:

Do you have twitter? If not i'd suggest getting an account and cutting out the middle man.

Don’t have Twitter don’t intend to.

Was the tapping up on there prior to the palace game?

2 minutes ago, terraloon said:

Don’t have Twitter don’t intend to.

Was the tapping up on there prior to the palace game?

Been on there a while, yes

"Anselmino was reportedly in tears when he left Dortmund". Apparently.

I feel sorry for him. I mean he is a young player having a good loan experience in Germany and the club send him to France. Poor bloke.

That said. "Anselmino was reportedly in tears when he left Dortmund" and do we really need/want a Centre Back who is a cry baby?

5 hours ago, TheCeleryKing said:

"Anselmino was reportedly in tears when he left Dortmund". Apparently.

I feel sorry for him. I mean he is a young player having a good loan experience in Germany and the club send him to France. Poor bloke.

That said. "Anselmino was reportedly in tears when he left Dortmund" and do we really need/want a Centre Back who is a cry baby?

We did all witness Fofanas full time attempt at the waterworks for losing a League Cup Semi Final right?

5 hours ago, TheCeleryKing said:

"Anselmino was reportedly in tears when he left Dortmund". Apparently.

I feel sorry for him. I mean he is a young player having a good loan experience in Germany and the club send him to France. Poor bloke.

That said. "Anselmino was reportedly in tears when he left Dortmund" and do we really need/want a Centre Back who is a cry baby?

So did Jamie Gitten's agent, tears of joy at the deal he had just done.

If the tapping rumours are true then I don’t care if Anselmino was distraught at leaving. Club have done the right thing by getting him out of Germany.

Can someone verify those reports, or is it just typical BlueCo PR because we needed to replace Sarr after pump faking yet another transfer target?

5 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Can someone verify those reports, or is it just typical BlueCo PR because we needed to replace Sarr after pump faking yet another transfer target?

No one can verify them, which is why they make for perfect PR.

'Tapping up' is an unenforceable rule except in very specific and very limited circumstances.

It is also conveniently vague - what is it that Dortmund are actually have said to have done? Are they not allowed to say things like "wow Anselmino is so good we would like to have him next year provided we can afford him"? Is their coach not allowed to give him positive feedback? Are there players not allowed to compliment him in training? Did they feed him nicer food than his teammates? Did they allow him to have too much fun?

Dortmund wouldn't have needed to do anything to convince him other than offer him play time, it is the obvious risk when you loan to other top clubs. Dortmund would still have had to pay the same fees as anyone else interested, and their reported interest would only drive the price up, not down. Hell Dortmund being interested should have automatically signalled that Bayern would be joining the bidding table. Also, Dortmund happily supported him through injury, and given his accelerating injury record selling him back to Dortmund at a profit, with a decent sell-on or buy-back clause, would have been the smart option.

BlueCo's handling of this has not just been typically stupid, but also done with the characteristic contempt for players and the sport itself that is now a hallmark of how this club conducts itself with transfers.

Edited February 6Feb 6 by SydneyChelsea